A “definitive study” from Johns Hopkins University researchers and others shows that convalescent plasma can cut hospital admissions for COVID-19 by 54% if it is given within 8 days of the start of symptoms.
This translates to 54% fewer hospitalizations hospitalization with convalescent plasma.
"This is very good news since we are in the midst of the Omicron surge, which has defeated [some of] our major monocular antibody therapies," said Arturo Casadevall, MD, chair of the Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology at Johns Hopkins.Tuesday on MedRxiv. The study has not yet been peer reviewed.
Sullivan and colleagues hope their findings will prompt the FDA to expand the the authorization to include outpatients, which would help keep people out of the hospital in the first place.. "We do believe that this could be scaled up quickly," added Gebo, professor of medicine at Johns Hopkins. Convalescent plasma,"could be used as a potential treatment as variants continue to evolve, such as we've seen with Omicron.
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